Best Maine Poems

The dragonflies danced in the crisp Maine air
on a draft from the ocean deep.
Their delicate wings teased the breeze
high up on Mount Battie’s Peak.

Blue-black they flew like the night time sky,
as the mica flecked granite shone,
Seeking nectar sweet from blueberries bushes
and their small white flowers’...

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There once was a pretty girl from Maine
That her beauty spread to Spain
She didn't want to marry
Because the man's name was Larry
So the people thought her insane


NOTE: I'm having a ball finding all my old poetry. I wrote this when I was 11! So much...

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I have a memory of those days
In Maine, with crashing coastal waves

When reading was a future right
Mom read, “Blueberries for Sal” at night

And that huge nameless tree in the field
At dark, a dinosaur concealed

Walking a stray black cat with a string
That ran up a tree...

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Step between the clumps of weed
and tangled traps of trash. Footprints
in the shallow face of the damp sand
fill with pooled water.

Look out, past the wide horizon,
the stretched, vast blue;
point to the pinpoint,  where the hazed
hot sky meets the bumping, cresting waves;

walk, in between the...

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C’mon up the porch ‘n sit a spell.
Pull up a chayah ‘n give your dogs a rest.
Wanna beeyah (some call it beer)? Mountain Dew?
Lemme tell ya why I find Maine is the best.

Showah, we drop our r’s and add some too,
and we don’t ansah questions,...

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the top state,landwise
in the continental way
alaska goes star...

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Yankee Doodle went to Maine
Riding on a snail.
By the time he reached Bangor,
He was old and frail!...

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For my sister, Sami, because this morning one of our four Maine Coons suddenly and unexpectedly died...

Haughty snobbish tomcat
tap water trample cat
never inside brat
inferiority complexity
acrobat
My Maine man
My Coon, I didn't expect
you'd go so soon

***

June 3, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White...

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The White Cliffs of Maine
The Sequin Island Lighthouse
Haunting Spirits, walk

The sound of, Piano
OVER and Over Again
Lighthouse lights the Night

Inspired by the Contest : " In the Light of Haiku "
Sponsored by " Russell Sivey "

By HGarvey Daniel Esquire

Author's Note " The Sequin Lighthouse " is...

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Small boys in Maine
wear jackets in summer
late spring search for bugs and take nature walks
digging, turning over logs, sticking to trails
ankle deep in freezing water 
fishing
shaking
not getting out

small boys in Maine
love the ride to town in the pickup
love the berries and the ice house
its cold...

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I am powerless in mind and within my body,
This alcohol has got me down and I am paralyzed,
The world in which I call home cannot be analyzed,
All through this drink, with this I have declared my hobby.

My Friends do not respect me to which I...

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Rich dark blanket of night,
Silken wrapper, inducer of sleep,
You sooth the glare of harsh daylight strivings.
Half of the world sinks into rest.

Beyond the soft, tenebrous cloak: infinite brightness.
Into the dense fabric a droll designer deftly fashions
Small snips, eyelets, delicate cuttings, 
Wheeling patterns – the geometry...

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My favorite place is any ocean space
Maine, a place with many beaches to visit
I love to smell, feel ocean air on my face
Pemaquid, Popham, Reed are all exquisite
Sand squishy under my feet, toes, slows my pace 
Diving into cold waves, no fears inhibit
swimming, even when...

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“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance.
Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead
His gaze as straight as his furrows.
Amos is what you might call a “deep thinker”.
I watch as he bounces up and down on the plow hitch
The bells on his mighty...

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WHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER 
 
(1 AM in the morning  -  Naples, Maine)

When unseasonable lake water balm 
meets you tripping out of Ricks’ Café 
after midnight
you know those blues notes  
were not meant for you
tonight you’re off...

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